Your only options are "I regret it," "I would change it if I could go back," and "It's in the past, I don't care anymore"?

Why would you assume everyone feels either negative or neutral about their teen
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Your only options are "I regret it," "I would change it if I could go back," and "It's in the past, I don't care anymore"?

Why would you assume everyone feels either negative or neutral about their teen sexual experiences?

I for one feel great about my choices. I was well aware that sex didn't equate with love, and enjoyed exploring it with my partners.

Thank you! I'd had sex with boys and girls before I turned 16 and I don't regret anything! I was so over relationships after being cheated on and physically and sexually abused by an ex-boyfriend and decided to just explore and have fun. I was never stupid about it and I've made it to 20 without so much as a pregnancy or STD scare. I'm in a serious relationship now and haven't had sex with anyone but my partner for the last year and a half but I don't regret a single sexual encounter from those few years in high school I let myself have fun.

Were you sexually active? I was and I regret it. Seeing my younger sister be active just freaks me out though. She's even younger than I used to be. The times have changed!

Yep, they're gettin' it on earlier and earlier. Well, that almost sounded as if it were a good thing! Lol. Definitely not good, but I did it way too early. I don't regret, ever. I truly learn from my mistakes. I don't think I can recall many things that I've actually regretted. I had sex way too early, but didn't continue doing it. It was a one time thing and then happened again in my later teen years and then with my current partner who I started seeing at 15. It's very scary, especially with how bad STD'S and HIV are. It scares me.

Were you sexually active? I was and I regret it. Seeing my younger sister be active just freaks me out though. She's even younger than I used to be. The times have changed!

I am a female and I wasn't really except for with myself. I was sexually active with myself like it was my job. But I regret not doing thins because I feel like it would have been an experience. I think I kind of missed out

I was 15, and I don't regret it at all, because it gave me experience. I do regret not being more careful, though. Although I was only with one partner (at the time) I didn't make him use condoms because we were taught to abstain, so I didn't know about the other options until almost a year in! A friend of mine mentioned something about a pill that you could take daily and prevent it (who woulda thunk it?!) and that's when I talked to my doctor about different types of birth control and was put on the Depo shot.

I'm a perfect example of why abstinence only sex-education lacks the actual EDUCATION part. It didn't stop me from having sex, just made me less prepared and far less educated about how to avoid getting an STD or pregnant.

The times haven't really changed. I mean, it wasn't uncommon for girls to get married off at 13 or 14 in the past. There's always been some sex at high school age. I think right now, the media is sensationalizing it. Also girls are dressing more provocatively, but that doesn't mean they are having more sex.

I was sexually precocious as a young teen, lost my virginity two weeks after my 15th birthday, had my first encounter with another girl in the same year, gave my first BJ at 16, and generally was promiscuous until I turned 19.
I regretted it around the time my first marriage failed but Phil helped me put things into perspective and I now know that what we did in our younger days can have a beneficial effect on how we turn out in later years.

I was getting handjobs and oral sex along with intense foreplay like heavy petting, fingering and even performing cunnilingus at age 16. I lost my virginity at 17. Having a girlfriend who was being raised in a single parent household by a liberal father who gave his blessing for our sex life, I had a very active sex life as a teen. I do not regret it, and even remember the fond memories of our sexual exploits and adventures often.